Need to find Computername

[Ty909]

Does anyone know how to get the computername from the username? I guess I am looking for the opposite of 'NBTSTAT -a computername/ip' where this command would show me whos logged in by giving the computername. We have users who go from one machine to another on a 9x/NT/XP enviroment. When they log calls they never tell me what computer they are on. I want to be able to do a query on their name and get the computername from it to be able to VNC into it.

Thanks...

[crispey]

what type of network are you running?

[crispey]

http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/f...&enterthread=y

is a similar query and this answer might help " Although not directly an answer here's what I have done in the past to gain what your looking for.
It is not perfect but then what is.

Create a shared folder that all users can access. In your login script add the following line

ECHO %computername% %date% %time% >> \\server\share\%username%.txt

Now in the folder you will have a listing of files by username that contain the information. It does not tell you if they are on line but it will give you the history of every machine they have logged onto along with when. I've found it very usefull when trying to find lost files of roaming users.


I have also used in the same script a second line to create by computername

ECHO %username% %date% %time% >> \\server\share\%computername%.txt

Now I have a history of who's been on each machine"

[CeeBee]

I second that, I have been using *exactly* the same method for years.